As I said before, we’re now part of the Woongjin Plus Academy franchise. It has its good points and bad points. Classes that are slightly more advanced have the option of doing shadowing. Essentially it’s reading a chapter book in addition to their curriculum. It’s kind of fun. Of the three classes doing it, two love it. The third class is 2 fifth graders and they hate everything. And I have the wonderful luck to be teaching the book “Speaking Tutor” to them. Yeah, it is as bad as you think.
Now, of course, we can’t just read and discuss the book. No, I have a book of various activities we’re supposed to work through. I am the teacher. Thus I am going to pick the activities I want to do. Plus, according to some teachers, I should be teaching language, not literacy. *cough* bull shit *cough*. Whatever. It’s actually easier to do that with the younger kids because there is so much grammar they don’t know. So, one of my activities is going to be finding and writing all the irregular past tense verbs we can find. Then we’ll write their base form. Presto. Language activity. There is also a lot of directional language in the book (up, down, left, right, etc) so I’m going to write the sentence from the book and we’ll draw a picture to illustrate the sentence. Bingo. Language activity.
The older students are doing a lot of writing. They have a worksheet they have to complete for each chapter. This is one I made. I’ll have to throw it in my dropbox so I can post it here. Friday’s activity was to describe the main character’s personality now and then in the future (I told them 20 years). You would have thought I asked them to write a dissertation on the main character of “The Elevator Duck”. I wanted a paragraph on each.
Oh well. If I think of anymore great activities, I’ll talk about here.
